The much anticipated and highly sought after UCT Award for Excellence in SPE is to be presented this year at the SOFT 2012 meeting in Boston, MA. UCT would like to thank all those who submitted entrees. This years winners have been chosen after much deliberation and discussion among the members of UCT selection committee.
This years first award winner is Dr. Thomas G. Rosano, D-ABFT(Albany Medical Center, NY). This work developed the use of SPE into the medical examiner setting, where a comprehensive drug screening is an essential analytical tool in the investigation of cause and manner of death. Dr. Rosano and his team have validated non-targeted and targeted screening assays for drugs and metabolites using ultra-performance liquid chromatography (UPLC) interfaced with mass spectrometry (MS) in single and tandem stages. For non-targeted screening by UPLC-MS electrospray interface, in-source fragmentation was used along with MS scanning (m/z 80-650) and library search for over 700 drug and metabolite analytes. Th second award winner is Ms. Cynthia Burbach, MS, Colorado Dept. of Health & Environment, Denver. Ms Burbach's project submission was on the Validation of THC and metabolites in Whole Blood using SPE and LC-MS/MS. In this methodology, THC and it's hyrdroxy and carboxy metabolites were extracted using SPE and analyzed via LC-MS/MS. The SPE method was valid to sub 1 ng/ mL LOD/LOQ with high recoveries and minimal matrix effects. This method is now on the laboratory's book tests for over 40 samples per day. UCT's third award winner was the submission presented by Robert Sears, MS ( The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division). In this submission, a routine method for the analysis of 13 of the most popular Synthetic Cannabinoids in Whole Blood using SPE was validated. This method takes advantage of the high efficiency/ productivity of SPE to produce a method that can be used in a legal-judical system.
UCT salutes this years winners who will be presented with their awards during the SOFT meeting.
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